danielgtaylor

Moving to ES6 from CoffeeScript

I fell in love with CoffeeScript a couple of years ago. Javascript has always seemed something of an interesting curiosity to me and I was happy to see the meteoric rise of Node.js, but coming from a background of Python I really preferred a cleaner syntax.

In any fast moving community it is inevitable that things will change, and so today we see a big shift toward ES6, the new version of Javascript. It incorporates a handful of the nicer features from CoffeeScript and is usable today through tools like Babel. Here are some of my thoughts and issues on moving away from CoffeeScript in favor of ES6.

While reading I suggest keeping open a tab to Babel's learning ES6 page. The examples there are great.

Punctuation

Holy punctuation, Batman! Say goodbye to your whitespace and hello to parenthesis, curly braces, and semicolons again. Even with the advanced ES6 syntax you'll find yourself writing a lot more punctuatio

ericelliott

ES6 Defaults / Overrides Pattern

Combine default parameters and destructuring for a compact version of the defaults / overrides pattern.

function foo ({
    bar = 'no',
    baz = 'works!'
  } = {}) {

davideast

import {bootstrap, Component, Decorator, View, If, For, EventEmitter} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {FormBuilder, Validators, FormDirectives, ControlGroup} from 'angular2/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'app',
  injectables: [FormBuilder]
})
@View({
  template: `
  <div class="container" [control-group]="myForm">

paulirish

/* bling.js */
window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };

stoikerty

// Config that can be loaded externally, similar
// to [gulp-starter](https://github.com/greypants/gulp-starter)

var src  = './app/assets';
var dest = './public';
var config = {
  javascript: {
    src: src + '/javascript_app/**/*.{js,coffee}',
    rootFiles: [
      {

ksol

window.navigator.language        // -> "fr"
window.navigator.languages       // -> ["fr-FR", "fr", "en-US", "en", "es", "de"]
window.navigator.userLanguage    // -> undefined
window.navigator.browserLanguage // -> undefined
window.navigator.systemLanguage  // -> undefined

bobbygrace

Hello, visitors! If you want an updated version of this styleguide in repo form with tons of real-life examples… check out Trellisheets! https://github.com/trello/trellisheets

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Trello CSS Guide

“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”

You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

jsturgis

var mediaJSON = { "categories" : [ { "name" : "Movies",
        "videos" : [ 
		    { "description" : "Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps... and the rabbit ain't no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.\n\nLicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution license\nhttp://www.bigbuckbunny.org",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" ],
              "subtitle" : "By Blender Foundation",
              "thumb" : "images/BigBuckBunny.jpg",
              "title" : "Big Buck Bunny"
            },
            { "description" : "The first Blender Open Movie from 2006",
              "sources" : [ "http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ElephantsDream.mp4" ],

sogko

'use strict';

// simple express server
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var router = express.Router();

app.use(express.static('public'));
app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.sendfile('./public/index.html');

jpvincent

/**
* NEVER BLOCKING LOOP : implementation of the infamous setTimeout 0 hack, with time checking in order to guarantee fluidity without sacrificing execution speed.
*
* USAGE :
*	var array = ["a way too big array that is heavy to process"]
* optimizeFor({
*		nbIterations: array.length,
*		each:function( index ) {
*			doSomethingUsefulWith( array[ index ] );
*		},